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Every so often I get to travel for work. This time I was allowed to go to one of the two RIPE meetings this year. RIPE is the organization that manages IP space called a Regional Internet Registry or RIR, which service region consist of 75 countries mainly in Europe and the Middle East. Since I, together with a colleague, handle the IP space for my employer SURF as the local internet registry (LIR) I got to attend this meeting in Prague.
On MCH2022 I attended a talk about Sensor.Community a Global Open Environmental Data Platform. The platform is a nice example of citizen science, with a large network of self made sensors that measure air quality, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and if you build an extra fancy one, also sound pollution. Since it’s a nice project with clear instructions (Dutch, English), I ordered the parts when I still was at MCH2022.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I found the time to build the actual sensor. Assembly was super easy and this is definitely an nice project for beginners, with minimal soldering required.
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If you are like me, you probably have a couple of domain names. Some in use, some cool to have, some for other people. Recently I realized that spammers can use domains that are not properly configured to use email and so I looked in to how to protect these domains while parked (or only in use for a simple site). I came across this elaborate document from the M3AAWG (Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group), I tried summarizing it below. Replace the bold example.com in the examples below by your own parked domain.
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